FATAL FIRE INVESTIGATED IN LAUGHLIN

A fatal fire is under investigation at the Crown Point Apartment Homes in Laughlin. Clark County Fire Department spokesman Jeff Buchanan said personnel responded at 5:44 p.m. Monday to the fire at the apartment complex on the Needles highway.

Crews extinguished the fire within ten minutes before locating a deceased subject in the burned unit on the upper level of the two story structure. The gender and name of the victim was not initially disclosed.

Other apartment units were protected from fire damage and no other complex occupants were displaced, according to Buchanan. He said there’s no damage estimate as of yet.